End Times archive

Terry Pinkard is the Ali Shuffle of heavyweight philosophers, stinging like a bee and floating like a butterfly through the legacy of Idealism, its historical context, the distinction between transcendental and trancendent, Fichte, Schelling, his naturalistic Platonism, his influence on the Romantics, on Holderlin and Hegel, Hegel's species of idealism, the centrality of his Logic, on what Beethoven and Wagner illustrate, and on the chances for Idealism in the contemporary setting. Rumble young man, rumble... Published on: Mar 14, 2015 @ 16:57

Brooke A. Holmes is a comparatist who has thought about the body as a conceptual object, the concept of the symptom, about ancient Greek medicine, about links between ethics and the rise of interest in natural science and medicine, about how new medical understanding changed meanings, about Nietzsche and Freud and fetishising modernity, about Galen and philosophical problems thrown up by the new medical understandings, about gender in antiquity, about what Laqueur fails to see, about Foucault and sexuality, about Epicureanism and Lucretius in particular and Deleuze's reading. This one is bringing it all back home again... Published on: Mar 6, 2015 @ 01:52

A.J. Hamilton is the jazzy funkster philosopher who riffs over a range of themes. He thinks about self consciousness, phenomenology, Gareth Evan's account, Wittgenstein's, philosophical aesthetics, Kant and Adorno, music as an art, the role of the public intellectual and the demise of expensive investigative journalism. This is a cool hand... Published on: Feb 28, 2015 @ 11:55

Felix Ó Murchadha is a philosopher who never stops thinking about Heidegger and revolution, about Heidegger, time and Augustine, about the pointlessness of trying to immunize Heidegger's philosophy from his politics, about the relationship of politics and philosophy, about the relationship between Christianity and Greek philosophy, about Michel Henry and Jean-Luc Marion and Christianity, about Barth and Kierkegaard, about whether there can be a Christian philosophy, about phenomenology, about the theological turn in philosophy, about the debate between science and theology and about the role of philosophy. Read on.... Published on: Feb 20, 2015 @ 12:54

Daniel Garber knows philosophy makes some parents go silent and it's broad enough to encompass everything worth while. He thinks about the history of seventeenth century philosophy, about what makes the early moderns modern, about the giants of the time and what we learn from studying the lesser known ones too, about the importance of Kant to our conception of the early moderns, about Leibniz, about contrasts between Leibniz and Descartes and Spinoza, about the metaphysical schemes of the time, about Descartes and Galileo, about Hobbes and Spinoza, Pascal's wager, and about x-phi and comparing our present context with the early mods. This one wakes us up to the long years we've been travelling... Published on: Feb 15, 2015 @ 11:08

Diana Raffman is the deft philosophical flautist of vagueness. She thinks hard about vague words and their fuzziness, about supervaluationist approaches to the paradoxes, about judgemental hysteresis, about contextualism and why she changed her mind, about borderline cases, about not sacrificing bivalence, about why she thinks blue but not 'not blue' has borderline cases, about her multiple range theory, about changing the way philosophers have understood vagueness and about the epistemic theories of Williamson and Sorensen. This one you have to read before drawing a line.... Published on: Feb 7, 2015 @ 08:48

Penelope Maddy is the candy-store kid of metaphilosophical logic and maths. She's stocked up with groovy thoughts about the axioms of mathematics, about what might count as a good reason to adopt one, about mathematical realism, about Gödel's intuitions, naturalism, second philosophy, Hume and Quine, world-word connections, about where mathematical objectivity comes from, about the limitations of drawing analogies, about depth, about Wittgenstein and the logical must, about the Kantianism of the Tractatus and about the relationship between science and philosophy. Suck it and see, this one has a fizz ... Published on: Jan 31, 2015 @ 09:43

David James is the funky philosophical Fichtean who goes deep into Fichte, German Idealism, Rousseau, Kant and all that jazz. He thinks of German Idealism as a cluster, about Fichte and recognition, about why Fichte's views on natural rights are not modern liberalism's, about Fichte's political order, about Fichte's view of natural right, about Rousseau's influence on German Idealism, on Rousseau's ideas about human perfectability, about his ideas about property and equality and about the quasi-theological assumptions of the german Idealist agenda. This one gets to the source... Published on: Jan 24, 2015 @ 10:13

Stephan Kraemer is the new guy on the Phlox-block making waves as he cuts to the metaphysical chase investigating what there is. Consequently he's always thinking about grounding, about what philosophers mean by the term, about ontological cheating, about Kit Fine's self grounding puzzle, about Bolzano's intransparency thesis and what he got right and what he got wrong, about Quine's thesis of ontological collapse and why it fails, about why metaphysics answers some ontological questions better than science, about the analytic tradition in Germany and not being able to get clear about what Derrida and his followers claim. Like a cold pint of Doom Bar bitter downed as a last chance, this one's fundamental... Published on: Dec 21, 2014 @ 11:07

Penny Rush is a hard core straight scotch who never stops thinking about the logic of logic, its metaphysics and other crazy depths. She thinks about the relation between logic and reason, about the idea of the one true logic, about classical vs non-classical logics, about the four basic logical issues, about the metaphysics of logic, about Brady's meaning containment and its implications, about mathematical realism, about Derridas' analysis of metaphysics as theology and Husserl's phenomenology, about meaning, objectivity, Barad's model, Crispin Wright's, Quentin Meillassoux and the paradox of independent reality and whether logic is in the same state of 'otherness' as mathematics. Drink each dram with care as dark nights fall in on us and things freeze... Published on: Dec 5, 2014 @ 03:00

Margaret Cuonzo is a single malt scotch from a cask wood hogshead chill filtering paradoxes. She likes Schiffer's distinction between happy and unhappy solutions, thinks paradoxes demand serious thought, thinks solutions to paradoxes re-educate our intuitions, thinks Bayesian degrees of belief useful, discusses six types of solution, thinks there's a great irony in trying to solve paradoxes and thinks the sorites one of the deep ones. As a mighty winter starts read this and warm to her task... Published on: Nov 29, 2014 @ 11:59

Dalia Nassar is a double shot of Glenmorangie on a wintry night as she goes to the depths of German Romanticism. She thinks all the time about the key idea of Kantian critical Idealism,thinks it's best to think of Romanticism as connecting metaphysical and epistemic questions, about the Jena Romantics Novalis, Schlegel and Schelling, about the relationship between Romanticism and Idealism, about Romanticism and nature, about why she disagrees with Manfred Frank's reading of the Romantics' relationship with Idealism, about why she disagrees with Frederick Beiser on seeing Schelling as the culmination of Romanticism, about Romanticism and the claim it rejected systems and about why we should heed the philosophers. Those two guys in the dark, wolves howling, looking at the moon, they'd be fine if they were drinking in this ... Published on: Nov 21, 2014 @ 03:00